Immense Quotes

551 Immense quotes by 445 unique authors

How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five? — William Blake
We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of… — Richard P. Feynman
She was riding a bear! And the Aurora was swaying above them in golden arcs and loops, and all around was the bitter Arctic cold… — Philip Pullman
When the immense drugged universe explodes In a cascade of unendurable colour And leaves us gasping naked, This is no more than the ectasy of… — Robert Graves
An Immense hatred keeps me alive... i would live for a thousand years if i were certain of seeing the whole world croak. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I believe that around us there is only one word on all sides, one immense word which reveals our solitude and extinguishes our radiance: Nothing!… — Henri Barbusse
Today, the entire country is an immense University. — Fidel Castro
For every bourgeois, in the heat of youth, if only for a day, for a minute, has believed himself capable of immense passions, of heroic… — Gustave Flaubert
She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering. — Henry James
The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality. — Charles Baudelaire
My experiences of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them nor be indisposed to serve them: nor, in spite of failures which… — Robert E. Lee
I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous,… — Bertrand Russell
Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food,… — Frederick Douglass
What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it… — Umberto Eco
Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the… — Wilkie Collins
I am miracle ingredient Z-247. I'm immense. I'm a real, slam-bang, honest-to-goodness, three-fisted humdinger. I'm a bona fide supraman. — Joseph Heller
The surface of the Earth itself is an immense loom upon which the sun weaves the fabric of existence. — Wade Davis
It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a… — Raymond Carver
If you have only education and knowledge and a lack of the other side, then you may not be a happy person, but a person… — Dalai Lama
Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up distancing themselves from… — Paulo Coelho
Because the golden egg gleamed in my basket once, though my childhood became an immense sheet of darkening water I was Noah, and I was… — Mark Doty
the sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her… — Edith Wharton
The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we are not yet born, we are joyfully ripening. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

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